Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

Pigeons of Discontent

Paddy Cahill, 9 minutes, 2019

In the otherwise tranquil Dublin neighbourhood of Stoneybatter, one local issue has divided neighbours: the pigeons.

Local opposition to a gas pipeline in the West of Ireland is already seen to have caused the imprisonment of five activists when this documentary account of the ongoing battle between Shell Oil and a County Mayo community picks up…

The Poet, the Shopkeeper and Babu

Neasa Ní Chianáin, 90 minutes, 2005

The story of Cathal Ó Searcaigh, the Irish gay poet, who spends part of every year in Nepal where he has 'adopted' a family and their country. Neasa NÍ Chianáin's film follows Ó Searcaigh to his adopted home and contrasts…

The Polish School

Michael Ryan, 10 minutes, 2012

This short documentary presents a Saturday School in Galway which caters to the community’s new Polish residents. Children and teachers describe how the school offers them a chance to make contact with their native culture.

Postcard from a Crisis

Kathleen Harris,
Samuel Meyler, 15 minutes, 2018

As the refugee crisis quietly continues, four Irish clowns travel to Greece to perform for children living and waiting in temporary shelters.

Pure Grit

Kim Bartley, 75 minutes, 2021

Pure Grit is a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American woman on the Wind River Reservation in Northern Wyoming. Sharmaine, a former horse…

Pyjama Girls

Maya Derrington, 70 minutes, 2010

Pyjama Girls principally focuses on the lives of two charismatic inner-city Dublin teens, Lauren and Tara, as they roam the streets, sporting nightwear for daywear; a curious cultural (and purely female) phenomenon currently spreading the globe. In a series of…

Quarantine

Tadhg O'Sullivan, Feargal Ward, 15 minutes, 2011

An affectingly intimate portrait of isolation, Quarantine record a woman’s brave response to being put in quarantine after radiation therapy. Her isolation is acutely captured by directors Tadhg O’Sullivan and Feargal Ward but it is Rosanna Byrne’s stoic response to…

The Queen of Ireland

Conor Horgan, 82 minutes, 2016

Panti Bliss – AKA Rory O’Neill – is many things: Ireland’s premiere drag queen, successful businesswoman and, most recently, an accidental activist and campaigner on the world stage championing LGBT rights. Described by long-time co-conspirator Niall Sweeney as a “glamorous…

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